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Vowing to reclaim her honor, she leaves the mansion, only for the Imperial police to arrest her as a suspect in the Mist Serial Murder Case.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"The Mansion Awaits Spring Chapter Draft 2 opens as April Ava Lunos's seven-year house arrest ends and no one comes to collect her. While the townspeople brand her the Mist Witch because of gas lamps and winter fog, April recalls the past broken engagement betrayal and her family's execution. Vowing to reclaim her honor, she leaves the mansion, only for the Imperial police to arrest her as a suspect in the Mist Serial Murder Case.","key_events":["Townspeople discuss cold weather, rising gas bills, and deadly winter fog, blaming the witch.","April's parents attempt revenge by poisoning Miller's cup but the plan fails.","15-year-old April is sentenced to seven years house arrest despite lack of evidence.","Head of House Lunos and his wife are sentenced to death and executed, causing House Lunos to fall.","April leaves the mansion to confront Miller Dieus herself and reclaim her honor.","Rumor spreads that the woman heading House Lunos is a witch because gas lamps burn despite gas cut off.","April remains alone in mansion for seven years and one month with no one coming after sentence ends.","Miller Dieus unilaterally breaks engagement with April after falling in love with another woman.","Outside mansion, April is arrested as suspect in Grand Duchy Mist Serial Murder Case.","Patrolling police warn townspeople about open fires and order them to extinguish the fire."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"HAAAH... NOW I CAN FINALLY BREATHE.\nIF IT IS ALREADY THIS COLD, HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO GET THROUGH THIS WINTER?\nWITH THE GAS BILL GOING UP AND ALL.\nIS THE GAS BILL REALLY WHAT MATTERS RIGHT NOW, MY FRIEND?\nIF IT GETS ANY COLDER, THAT DAMNED FOG WILL START KILLING PEOPLE AGAIN...\nWOULDN'T THAT BE SOLVED IF THEY JUST CAUGHT THAT DAMN WITCH?\n\nSHE'S THE ONE MAKING THE FOG AND EVERYTHING, ISN'T SHE!\nA WITCH? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?\nDO YOU NOT READ THE NEWSPAPERS?\nSEE THAT PLACE OVER THERE? THE MANOR WHERE \"THAT WOMAN\" LIVES ALONE.\n\nI ALWAYS WONDERED HOW SHE COULD AFFORD TO KEEP ALL THOSE GAS LAMPS LIT EVERY DAY,\nBUT THEY SAY THE GAS TO THAT HOUSE WAS CUT OFF AGES AGO.\nWHAT? HOW CAN SHE LIGHT GAS LAMPS WITH NO GAS?\nHAH, THAT'S WHY I'M SAYING SHE'S A WITCH!\nWHAT ELSE COULD EXPLAIN IT?\n\nFOR A NOBLE LADY WHO LIVES ALONE WITHOUT A SINGLE SERVANT,\nHOW COULD SHE GET GAS INTO THAT HUGE HOUSE AND KEEP THE LIGHTS ON?\nOBVIOUSLY, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING UNNATURAL GOING ON.\nI HEARD AT CHURCH THAT THE WOMAN,\nEVER SINCE SHE WAS CAUGHT TRYING TO MURDER THE GRAND DUCAL COUPLE,\nSHE WENT COMPLETELY MAD.\n\nWHAT ELSE WOULD A MADWOMAN SHUT UP IN HER HOUSE DO?\nSHE MUST BE LEARNING BLACK MAGIC AND PLOTTING REVENGE.\nTHEN, AFTER BECOMING A WITCH,\nSHE LIGHTS THOSE GAS LAMPS WITH STRANGE MAGIC\n\nAND CASTS A FOG CURSE OVER THIS TOWN EVERY WINTER!\nWOW... SO THAT'S WHY THE HEAD OF HOUSE LUNOS IS CALLED THE WITCH OF THE MIST?\nYEAH, THAT'S WHAT I'M SAY...\nING?!\n\nWH-WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?\nOH, JUST POLICE ON PATROL.\nOPEN. FLAMES. ARE. PROHIBITED. AND YET YOU LIT A FIRE HERE.\nPlease put it out.\nOH, MY. SORRY ABOUT THAT...\n\n...IT SEEMS CERTAIN THAT WITHIN THE GRAND DUCHY,\n\nTHE PREVAILING BELIEF IS THAT THE HEAD OF HOUSE LUNOS IS A WITCH.\nSUPERINTENDENT DIEUS.\n\nWHAT?\nYES. IN THE ABANDONED HARBOR DISTRICT AND EVEN THE VILLAGES NEAR THE ESTATE...\nWHAT DO YOU THINK?\n...SIR?\n\nAPRIL AVA LUNOS...\n\nDO YOU REALLY THINK SHE'S THE WITCH OF THE MIST?\n\nTO THE EAST OF THE RASA EMPIRE,\nTHERE IS AN ISLAND SHAPED LIKE A WAXING HALF MOON CALLED “RIGHT ISLAND.”\nTO THE PEOPLE OF RIGHT ISLAND, DESCENDANTS OF RUGGED SEAFARERS,\n\nHONOR MATTERS ABOVE ALL ELSE.\nTHAT IS WHY, AGAINST ANYONE WHO STAINED THEIR HONOR,\nTAKING REVENGE BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY\n\nWAS LIKE A MISSION CARVED INTO THE SOULS OF THE RIGHT ISLAND'S PEOPLE.\nAND\nBEFORE I TURNED 15,\nAPRIL, THE WEDDING IS OFF.\n\nLET US BREAK OFF OUR ENGAGEMENT.\nMY FIANCÉ TRAMPLED ON MY HONOR.\nMILLER DIEUS, THE RULER OF RIGHT ISLAND,\n\nFELL IN LOVE WITH HIS NANNY'S DAUGHTER AND UNILATERALLY BROKE OFF OUR BETROTHAL.\nON RIGHT ISLAND, WHERE HONOR IS CHERISHED AS DEARLY AS LIFE,\nTAKING REVENGE ON A BETRAYER WAS A MATTER OF COURSE,\nSO MY PARENTS, FOR THE SAKE OF THEIR DAUGHTER AND OUR FAMILY'S HONOR,\nPLANNED THEIR REVENGE BY PUTTING POISON IN HIS CUP, BUT...\n\nUNFORTUNATELY, THEIR REVENGE FAILED.\n\nUNABLE TO STOMACH THE PRICE OF TRAMPLING ON MY HONOR, GRAND DUKE MILLER DIEUS\nSUBJECTED THE RIGHT ISLAND'S TRADITIONAL REVENGE TO THE LAWS OF ITS RULER, THE RASA EMPIRE.\nRIGHT ISLAND'S PROUD TRADITION BECAME THE BARBARIC CUSTOM OF AN UNCIVILIZED VASSAL STATE,\n\nAND MY PARENTS AND I BECAME ATTEMPTED MURDERERS.\nA MAN WHO COULD NOT EVEN BEAR THE PRICE OF HIS OWN BETRAYAL.\nBECAUSE OF HIS COWARDICE,\nLUNOS FELL.\n\nAPRIL LUNOS.\nTAKING INTO ACCOUNT THAT YOU ARE 15,\nI SENTENCE YOU TO SEVEN YEARS OF HOUSE ARREST.\n\nTHERE WAS NO EVIDENCE THAT I TOOK PART IN THE CRIME, BUT NO PROOF THAT I DID NOT,\nAND WHEN THE VERDICT WAS HANDED DOWN TO ME FOR THAT REASON...\nNEXT IS THE VERDICT FOR THE HEAD OF HOUSE LUNOS AND HIS WIFE.\nDEATH.\n\nAH, NO...\nNO, NO. THIS CANNOT BE...!\n\nMOTHER. FATHER.\nWHY DID YOU DEFEND ME SO FIERCELY, INSISTING I ALONE WAS INNOCENT?\nYOU SMILED AS IF YOU WERE SIMPLY RELIEVED THAT YOUR DAUGHTER, AT LEAST, HAD SURVIVED.\nTHAT IMPOSSIBLY PEACEFUL SMILE...\nNo!!\n\nAH\nIT FELT AS THOUGH MY HEART WOULD BE TORN APART.\nIN SEPTEMBER, WHEN WINTER BEGINS TO SEEP INTO RIGHT ISLAND,\n\nHOUSE LUNOS FELL ALONG WITH MY PARENTS' EXECUTION.\nONLY I REMAINED, TRAPPED IN THE MANOR FOR SEVEN YEARS, FORCED TO BROOD OVER THIS TRAGEDY ALONE.\n\nAT LAST, SEVEN HELLISH YEARS...\nNO, SEVEN YEARS AND ONE MONTH HAVE PASSED.\n\nI THOUGHT THAT ON THE DAY MY SEVEN YEARS WERE UP,\nSOMEONE WOULD COME TELL ME MY HOUSE ARREST WAS OVER, BUT...\nEVEN NOW, A FULL MONTH LATER,\n\nNO ONE HAS COME FOR ME.\nHAS THE HOUSE OF DIEUS FORGOTTEN ME?\n\n...IF YOU WILL NOT COME TO ME,\nI WILL COME TO YOU MYSELF, MILLER DIEUS.\n\nAND\nWHAT I TRAMPLED ON\n\nAND WHAT MY PARENTS TRIED TO PROTECT.\n\nHONOR.\n\nI WILL RECLAIM MY HONOR.\n\nAH, I AM OUTSIDE THE MANOR.\nAS EXPECTED, THE GARDEN IS A COMPLETE MESS.\n\nREMOVING THE WEEDS AND THE REMAINING STAKES\nIS GOING TO TAKE QUITE A BIT OF TIME...\n\n...THE POLICE?\nMY HOUSE ARREST ENDED A MONTH AGO. WHY ARE THEY ONLY SHOWING UP NOW? I wore myself out for nothing.\n\nI SHOULD GO GIVE THEM A PIECE OF MY...\nDO NOT MOVE, APRIL LUNOS.\nTAKE EVEN ONE STEP FROM THERE, AND WE WILL FIRE.\n\nHAH!\nTHAT IS RATHER VIOLENT FOR A NOTICE THAT MY HOUSE ARREST HAS BEEN LIFTED.\n\nDID YOUR COWARDLY ELDER BROTHER ASK YOU TO KILL ME?\nPEJIN DIEUS.\n\nOF COURSE NOT.\nI AM HERE UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE IMPERIAL POLICE.\n\n...THE EMPIRE?\nNOT THE GRAND DUCHY?\nFOR THE INCIDENTS THAT HAVE OCCURRED OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS,\n\nAS A SUSPECT IN THE \"GRAND DUCHY FOG SERIAL MURDER CASE,\"\nAPRIL AVA LUNOS, YOU ARE UNDER ARREST.","bubble_count":122,"pages_count":43,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"The Mansion Awaits Spring Chapter Draft 2 opens as April Ava Lunos's seven-year house arrest ends and no one comes to collect her.","spoiler_summary":"The Mansion Awaits Spring Chapter Draft 2 opens as April Ava Lunos's seven-year house arrest ends and no one comes to collect her. While the townspeople brand her the Mist Witch because of gas lamps and winter fog, April recalls the past broken engagement betrayal and her family's execution. Vowing to reclaim her honor, she leaves the mansion, only for the Imperial police to arrest her as a suspect in the Mist Serial Murder Case."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/the-mansion-awaits-spring-943smigg/chapter-2-itvfgu","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — The Mansion Awaits Spring #2: Chapter 1","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-24T10:39:31.668Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/the-mansion-awaits-spring-943smigg"}}